Main activity
Development of new materials
Breaking the known limits of materials.
Prototypes manufacturing
Feasibility studies for unitary or serial manufacturing
of new geometries or systems.
Process development
Testing new concepts to guarantee a successful transfer.
Equipment and capacities of reference
Pilot Foundry Plant
- Medium frequency furnaces for melting ferrous alloys
- Electric furnaces for melting non ferrous alloys
- Vacuum furnaces for melting ferrous and non ferrous alloys
- Heat teatment furnaces (several environments and monitoring parameters)
- Directional Solidification Furnaces
- CoreShooter compatible with organic and inorganic binding systems, commetial ones or ad-hoc developed
- Sand Mixer
- Ablation technology facility
3D sand printing
- Voxeljet VX1000 Printer
Sand testing
- Mixers for in-situ preparation
- Equipment to determine mechanical properties of green and chemical mixtures (resistance to bending, traction, compression, shearing, division)
- Molds for oblong and dog bone test tubes
- Equipment to determine the compatibility of green test tubes
- Active bentonite test
- Test specimen core shooter
Metallurgical control tools
- Thermolan®-Fe: Metallurgical Quality Control equipment for Iron Casting
- Kasandra®: AZTERLAN development for real time simulation of castings solidification processes
- Alu-Q®: Density and Oxide Analysis, D8 y D200
- Analysis of Filtered Microinclusions (Aluminum alloys)
- Non destructive testing: X-rays, tomography, ultrasounds, etc.
Design and modelling tools
- FactSage: Thermochemical Database Software
- Thermo-Calc: Thermodynamic and properties calculations
- DICTRA (Thermo-Calc Diffusion Module): Simulation of diffusion-controlled reactions in multicomponent alloy systems
- TC-PRISMA (Thermo-Calc Precipitation Module) modelling of precipitation kinetics in multicomponent and multi-phase systems
- Sysweld: simulate thermal joining and heat treatment processes considering thermal, metallurgical, and mechanical phenomena
- ProCast: Simulation of casting processes and analysis of thermal flux solidification and metallurgical behavior
- QuikCAST: Simulation of casting processes and analysis of thermal flux solidification and metallurgical behavior
- Kasandra®: AZTERLAN development for real time simulation of castings solidification processes
Metallic powders
- Metallic powder atomizer
- Ultrasonic seave
- Higrometer
- Hall funnel
- Ultrasonic cleaning chamber
- ATEX vacuum system
Characterization of magnetic properties
- MPG 200D magnetometer. 52A maximum current and 100V maximum voltage
- Double C Yoke Detection Sensor
- Epstein Frame Detection Sensor
- Single Sheet Tester Detection Sensor
Atomization of metallic powder by means of ATO lab Plus equipment
AZTERLAN magnetic properties testing equipmen
Sand mixer
Heat treatment furnaces
Feeding systems design
Core specimen shooter
Sandblasting of sand molds printed using additive technologies (3D)
AZTERLAN magnetic properties testing equipmen
HydroSolidification technology - Ablation casting
Surface cleaning and preparation
Thermolan - Ferrous alloys quality assessment equipment
Non ferrous melting furnaces
AZTERLAN researchers at AZTERLAN Pilot Foundry Plant
Alu-Q aluminun metallurgical quality assessment equipment
Vacuum furnace
3D sand printing (molds and cores)
Surface technologies
Surfaces
Heat treatments
AZTERLAN magnetic properties testing equipmen
Directional solidification furnaces
Sand blowing 3D printed sand molds
HydroSolidification technology - Ablation casting
Prototypes and short run production
Tempering dilatometer
AZTERLAN researcher at AZTERLAN Pilot Foundry Plant